Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that corrections officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3565--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, COLTON, STECK, O'PHARROW, HEVESI,
DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee
with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting county
correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated indi-
viduals on the premises of a local correctional facility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 505 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. County correction officers in local correctional facilities shall
4 not dispense or administer medications to incarcerated individuals on
5 the premises of a local correctional facility, as defined in subdivision
6 sixteen of section two of this chapter. This subdivision shall not,
7 however, impede county correction officers or staff from dispensing or
8 administering medications to incarcerated individuals during a medical
9 emergency.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
11 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05102-05-5
